MOVIE REVIEW - Daybreakers

The vampire movies just keep coming in this weeks Daybreakers starring Ethan Hawke, and Sam Neil. Will this trend ever stop?

Daybreakers is the story of life in our world in 2019. Vampires have taken over the world. Of course, vampires can't go out in the sun, they can only operate at night. They are actually dead, and their are supported by drinking human blood. Humans are an endangered species now. They are hunted and harvested by the military and are then farmed for their blood so the vampire majority can survive. Exciting? It's not.

It's yet another extremely dark, dank, and morose view of life in our world in the near future. There seems to be no shortage of these kind of movies at the box office in the past year. No one minds a good, "life won't be very good in the future movie." It's just a shame when there's little to no imagination to go along with some writer and directors gloomy vision of where we're going. Daybreakers makes a real cardinal flaw here. It relies heavily on 1980's gore and violence as it's main stay.

There are movies that are good family movies, and those you can take Nana to. Daybreakers is NOT that movie. Very graphic gore, complete with cannibalism, and plenty of blood to go around. Daybreakers is very dark from start to finish. In the movie, there is a frantic race for a "cure" for being a vampire. But the only race I was interested in was the sprint for the door to get this thing over with. For a movie with some good people, Daybreakers is really a disappointment. But hey it's January. It's bad movie season.

Daybreakers. Rental in 90 days when it's down that this, and Mama Mia.